| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars. By Georg Leidenberger. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. viii, 202 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-356-3.)

Chicago's Progressive Alliance joins a growing number of works that reinterpret the Progressive movement as a democratized reform politics, created when new actors took part in an expanded public sphere. Georg Leidenberger makes that argument through a case study of how organized labor and middle-class reformers came together in support of municipal ownership of Chicago's streetcars. That alliance was quite brief, lasting only from 1902 to 1907, and the movement failed to achieve its goal, even though citizens groups had been organizing to limit the power of the streetcar companies for more than a decade. Leidenberger argues that the movement succumbed to the city's deep and violent class struggle.

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